. The history and art of horsemanship . ky flream with horfes blood *. The materials of which the Sarmatians compofedtheir armour, was taken from the hoofs of horfes,which they cut into little plates, like fcales, which theypierced and fewed together with the fmews of oxenor horfes. Cappadocia flands eminently praifed for its horfes ;which, from the accounts given of them by hiftorians,and the commendations beftowed by the poets, whodefcribe their beauty and merit in the moft lively andftriking terms, feem to have claimed the precedenceof the reft of their fpecies. Oppian, Gratius, iElian,Neme
. The history and art of horsemanship . ky flream with horfes blood *. The materials of which the Sarmatians compofedtheir armour, was taken from the hoofs of horfes,which they cut into little plates, like fcales, which theypierced and fewed together with the fmews of oxenor horfes. Cappadocia flands eminently praifed for its horfes ;which, from the accounts given of them by hiftorians,and the commendations beftowed by the poets, whodefcribe their beauty and merit in the moft lively andftriking terms, feem to have claimed the precedenceof the reft of their fpecies. Oppian, Gratius, iElian,Nemefianus, Pliny, Vegetius, and Solinus, Pollux,Varro, and many others, give them the higheft cha-racfler. Oppian particularly celebrates their ftately car-riage, and loftinefs of aftion ; and fays, that whenyoung, they are delicate and weak, but that ftrengthcomes with years, and, contrary to other horfes,they are better and more powerful when advancedin age. * Martial alfo fays, Venit £5? e poto Sarmaia pvjius equo. The n. <•? 5«.
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